heisenbug : Java Glossary

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heisenbug
from Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics. A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. In Java, the problem usually involves Threads. In C, it usually involves uninitialised variables.
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